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The Monday Morning Memo

 

“If one has driven a car over many years, as I have, nearly all reactions have become automatic. One does not think about what to do. Nearly all the driving technique is buried in a machine-like unconscious. This being so, a large area of the conscious mind is left free for thinking. And what do people think of when they drive?”

“I can only suspect that the lonely man peoples his driving dreams with friends, that the loveless man surrounds himself with lovely, loving women, and that children climb through the dreams of the childless driver. And how about the area of regrets? If I had only done so-and-so, or not done such-and-such – my God, this damn thing might not have happened. Finding this potential in my own mind, I can suspect it in others, but I will never know, for no one ever tells.”

– John Steinbeck,
Travels with Charley
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“He gives structure, very, very cleverly, by starting each chapter with an American flag, and it's the flag that obscures the human face, from the very first image in the book, the flag is more important. Along with the American flag, there is a series of crosses, hidden, coded into it all the time. There's a picture of a Jehovah's Witness, and behind him in the stonework is a cross, so that he becomes a crucified figure. So you've got those two symbols as the basic grammar of the book. And it becomes the story of flags and hats and cigars and jukeboxes. And you realize the whole book is a narrative, a kind of narrative of optimism that's died. ‘The show is over.' And Frank understands that beautifully.”

- Iain Sinclair, speaking of Robert Frank's photobook The Americans, on The Genius of Photography, a BBC TV special

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